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Isla Pavón
Isla Pavón (Pavon Island) is an island in the Santa Cruz River in the department of Corpen Aike in Santa Cruz province in southern Argentina. The town of Comandante Luis Piedrabuena is on the north bank of the river, just downstream from the island. The English captain Pringle Stokes, who commanded ''HMS Beagle'' on her first voyage in 1828, entered the river and recorded the island, about from the river's mouth. On the Beagle's second voyage in 1834, when Charles Darwin was part of the exploring party, Captain Robert FitzRoy called it "Middle Island". A trading post was established on the island by Luis Piedrabuena in 1859. In 1868 Piedrabuena was granted possession of the island by the government of President Bartolomé Mitre. In 1873 a 650-ton Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Cruz River (Argentina)
Santa Cruz River ( es, Río Santa Cruz) is a river in the Argentina, Argentine Provinces of Argentina, province of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz begins at the shore of the Lake Viedma, Viedma and Argentino Lakes, of glacier, glacial origin and located in the Los Glaciares National Park, and runs eastwards before reaching the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Coast, north of the southern tip of South America, creating a river delta, delta. It is one of the last large free-flowing rivers in Patagonia. Dams The river has an important flow of on average, and is used for irrigation. Two dams are planned for the river, the Jorge Cepernic Dam, Jorge Cepernic and Nestor Kirchner Dams. They will have a combined installed capacity of 1,740 MW. Contracts to construct the dams were awarded to a consortium of Chinese and domestic companies in August 2013. It is estimated that the dams will destroy over half of the Santa Cruz River ecosystem. History Santa Cruz River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |